While data from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) shows improvement in airline customer service over the past decade, passenger complaints to the department have increased over 10% during the same period, according to a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Airbus Commercial Aircraft president Guillaume Faury says Airbus will give the market more concrete guidance on the proposed A321XLR in 2019, an aircraft Faury asserts can “change the industry.”
Air France is planning to reduce its 10-strong Airbus A380 fleet, returning at least two of the five leased superjumbos it operates, an industry source told Aviation Daily, confirming a Nov. 23 report by French newspaper Les Echos.
Airbus believes the Airbus A330neo will gain “more traction“ in the market once airlines are able to verify the aircraft’s in-service performance, now that TAP Air Portugal has taken delivery of the first A330-900.
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Boeing will hold a set of regional meetings and conference calls next week with 737 MAX customers to address their questions and concerns about a new system that was introduced on the re-engined narrowbody.
Inmarsat has signed agreements with five major air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in support of Iris, a European program aimed at increasing the use of datalink to support controller-pilot communications and improved trajectory management.
Officials of Alitalia’s potential rescuer, Italian rail company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) are talking to many operators, including UK LCC easyJet, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing FS CEO Gianfranco Battisti.
About a month after issuing requirements to upgrade software on CFM International Leap-1A engines, EASA has mandated similar actions for the -1B variant due to similar designs.
AirAsia X Group, the long-haul arm of LCC AirAsia, recorded a net loss of 197.5 million Malaysian ringgit ($47.2 million), deepened from a MYR43.4 million loss in the year-ago quarter, as operating costs continued to increase.
Boeing and Austin, Texas-based artificial-intelligence (AI) startup SparkCognition have launched SkyGrid, a joint-venture company that will develop an airspace management platform for unmanned aircraft and urban air mobility (UAM).
Traffic growth in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will generate demand for more than 1,200 new aircraft over the next two decades, more than doubling the size of the region’s fleet by 2037, according to Airbus’ Global Market Forecast, unveiled at the Wings of the Future conference in Moscow Nov. 20.
Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air—which launched Airbus A320 operations at its Vienna, Austria base in June—said its plans for expansion are on track.
Russia´s State Transport Leasing Co. (STLC) has signed letters of intent (LOIs) with Russian domestic airlines Alrosa and RusLine to lease two Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) to each carrier for a 12-year period.
Airbus made two executive management appointments Nov. 21, naming Dominik Asam chief financial officer (CFO) and Michael Schoellhorn chief operating officer (COO) for Airbus Commercial Aircraft.
